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Not the surface description of east orthodox "joyful sorrow" of standing at the cross willingly. But detached from theology. We all have heard that pleasure and pain are two sides of the same human experience. It is my assumption that 100% everyone here took it the opposite way than mystics and poets ever intended.

Those who chase the laughter, get used to laughter, then eventually reach for pain to laugh at because jokes aren't a strong enough substrate anymore. Laughing is like catch and release fishing, find the target and then the laughter is coughing out all feelings. When offended or ashamed, an ordinary troll will find something to laugh at. Even his own pain. Just to restore the comfortable hollowness. Then there is psychosis where people can't stop laughing at what is sad.

If you strengthen your sorrow muscle, you chase that which requires empathy. You then grow your soul to accommodate all the sorrow. And soon you blur the lines between pleasure and pain. You step into the opposite territory and still use the same mourn muscle as a means of appreciating jokes. Instead of coughing everything out, you absorb and digest what's supposed to be funny.

Pain? Pleasure? Doesn't matter. Certainly fewer people get offended if you digest their jokes (don't laugh at what is funny) than if you spit on their wounds (laugh at the unfunny). And you certainly don't unconsciously project onto others your own shadow that you run away from if you embrace it with all the sorrow necessary. And as opposed to seeking a stronger stimulus just to feel alive, weaker and weaker stimuli work just as well to make you feel alive. Willingly enduring sorrow, emotionally, not physically or mentally, is a prerequisite to being able to feel joy.

I dated a slightly older girl and it almost destroyed my life.

I guess we are at slightly different stages of life and she expects more

Argentina had a goal waved off because Messi was offside, even though he didn't make contact with the ball.

One player got whistled for being offside in his own half

One player got a goal waved off because he was offside by half a foot, and another by half a TOENAIL🤣

The US had a goal waved off because his SHOULDER was offside

And last night controversy errupted after a Croatia goal was waved off, because the player was offside, even though the ball bounced off the head of an opponent before reaching him.

Nahhhhhhhh, this is ridiculous! Something needs to change

Exactly one year ago President Trump and the Republicans passed the biggest tax cut for the middle class in history. It was called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and millions of Americans have seen a very significant cut in their taxes this year because of it.

It included such things as eliminating tax on all tips, elimination of tax on overtime, a permanent extension of individual tax cuts originally introduced by the 2017 middle class Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in President Trump's first term, child tax credits to help middle class families with children, a $6,000 deduction for middle class taxpayers over the age of 65 to help middle class seniors.

Yet EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT voted AGAINST it, so it just barely passed with only President Trump and the Republicans pushing it over the finish line.

WHY? WHY WOULD THE DEMOCRATS DO THAT?

If not to force you to turn over even more of YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY to the government and let someone else decide how it gets spent and not YOU, the person who earned it, then WHY?

On this the 250th birthday of the nation that invented freedom, I ask whether what the Democrats are doing is what FREEDOM is about? They have never seen a tax, to take even more of your money, that they didn't love. Is this what you really want?

So the question is: Who knows how to spend your own money better? YOU or THE GOVERNMENT?